There’s a piano in the common room of my college dorm with a note on it that says, “Please don’t play the piano between 9pm and 8am” with the last part crossed out with permanent marker and “EVER” written above it.

Because she’s a horribly jaded person. She’s just flabbergasted that she actually listed all the inaccuracies. Thank goodness it was done in text, though, or else we’d need to hear every one of them instead of just perusing.

Interestings, according to m-w, ‘peruse’ has the two distinct definitions of essentially, “look at with exacting attention to detail”, and “look at casually with no real attention to detail”, side-by side. (The latter sense is the one I’m more familiar with.) So essentially it’s a long way of saying “look at”.

As an anthropology major, I would like to say unless the feathers left an imprint in the surrounding stone, or less likely were fossilized themselves, no one in the world could possibly know they existed thousands of years ago.

And more importantly, at the time of the movie’s making I don’t believe that any significant evidence of that had turned up yet, putting aside Mr. Archeopteryx. I don’t think that Dina would be as mean to it about things that it couldn’t have known.

Well, let’s see now. There’s the obvious one, which is that the Velociraptors are FAR too big, and are more the size of Deinonychus (which, to be fair, was once considered a member of the Velociraptor genus). Dilophosaurus definitely did NOT have the colorful neck frill, and there’s no paleontological evidence that they ever produced or spat venom. Tyrannosaurus’s head wasn’t quite so boxy, and no WAY could it run as fast as they depicted in the film (waaaaaaaay too top heavy), not to mention that there’s no evidence that they couldn’t see unless something moved (plus, there’s the fact that they have one of the largest olfactory centers of any large carnivorous dinosaur known, so they could just SMELL you, whether you were moving or not).

All that’s just off the top of my head. If I was really trying, I could definitely come up with more.

Ialways hate the way they get the DNA. The blood is fossilised, The mosquito’s DNA would also be present. And you cant “fill the holes” of DNA with DNA from another animal and get the original creature put of it. You’d end up with that walking liver thing from Splice

If the blood was fossilized, it wouldn’t be blood. It would be minerals. The point of the mosquitos in amber is that the blood -wasn’t- fossilized, it was contained and preserved. And yes, actually, you can splice genes from one animal into another animal and sometimes end up with an animal very similar to the original. This is because common ancestry means that many organisms (well, all organisms, in fact) have genetic similarities to other organisms at certain points. Although honestly birds would probaly have been a better match, since they’re more closely related.

But really, the fact that the dinos in JP are genetically engineered explains away all possible paleontological inconsistencies. These -aren’t- original dinosaurs. They’re copies that have been engineered in a lab from incomplete genetic data. If raptors are the wrong size, or T-rexes have a sight defect, or feathers are missing, or whatever, it’s because these aren’t the original animals, they’re just the closest the scientists could come to, honestly, what -they- thought the dinosaurs would be like.

Hell, it’s entirely possible they worked in some “defects” on purpose to stay closer to the public perception of the things.

True, but all of that can be fixed by saying that it is explained that they didn’t actually have the full DNA strands… they had to “make up” bits of the DNA they found, replacing it with frog DNA (hence why later they are able to reproduce asexually).

a friend of mine studies genetics, he said that the DNA of all creatures holds all possibilities, like the fact that i have shadow pain in my ‘tail’. Remember that there is a lot of unused strands of DNA. Also, they follow a basic pattern so it would not be hard to compare, guess, cut and past. Lastly, cells tend to replicate, even broken ones, and ‘repair’ themselves.

Not to mention the fact that most of the dinosaurs are from the Cretacious era and not from the Jurassic. Altho in the 2nd Jurasic Park film they did acknowledge this somewhat.

The Velociraptor thing also irritates me. Velociraptors are the size of chickens. It’s Utahraptors that got that big (just watch the pilot ep of Primeval: New World where they acknowledged this and had a pair of them run rampant thru Vancouver! *lol*)

The book was correct at the time of its making but the thing is, we still know practically squat about dinos but we know more than then. The movie also took creative liberties. So the less knowledgeable could actually watch the movie without crying tears of boardom. Most people could care less except that raptors eat people. Spielberg is more about movie magic than facts any way.

Hold on a second, Utahraptors were WAY bigger than the raptors depicted in the film. Of course, both Deinonychus and Velociraptor are a lot smaller than those raptors, so…yeah, I guess Utahraptors the closest real-life raptor we got, huh? Also, Velociraptor was a lot bigger than a chicken, but still far smaller than the movie depiction (shoulder height was about 2 feet).

Well, considering that Spielberg just wanted to make the “Velociraptors” more intimidating and basically gave science the middle finger to do so, it was actually rather surprising when Utahraptors were discovered because of how similar they were to the raptors depicted in the film.

You can read more about it in Robert T. Bakker’s book “Raptor Red.” Yes, Bakker is one of the paleontologists that the kid asks Dr. Grant about when he’s talking his ears off.

Were any of the dinos in JP from the Triassic? It was a more limited selection back then, and a lot of them were smaller and lesser known by the public.
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After checking the JP wikia, it seems none of the dinos in the first movie were from the Triassic. The book has Procompsognathus “Compys”, which are Triassic. The book also mentions “giant dragonflies” which sound like Meganeura, which are from the Carboniferous.

In the book, the “T-rex only sees movement” thing was something that Grant figured out on the fly, rather than magically knowing it from fossils. The neck frills and venom on Dilophosaurus could easily be explained by a similar fashion (it was something they had that we couldn’t know about from the fossilized skeletal remains we have). It could also be a side effect of splicing in genes from other animals to create a viable genetic code.

Yeah, it’s a stereotype that asians push their kids into playing piano and violin– but I offer as evidence that my daughter’s Russian piano teacher has NOTHING BUT ASIANS as her students. Well, my daughter is half caucasian, but she’s half asian also.

The teacher has had at least 30 students consistently for the last 10 years. (My daughter has been with her for 10 years.) Over that entire period I remember maybe two caucasian students. She doesn’t actively search them out, that just seems to be the group of people that want her services.

Now, mind, I live in Silicon Valley, where we have a high concentration of Asians and a high concentration of moderately-affluent people so the population is skewed with respect to the rest of the country. (with houses at 1 million for 3 bedrooms I dunno how Walmart employees *survive*.)

‘In addition to the unclear species and the incorrect distribution of toes, there is the apparent presence of large humanoid legs along its underside, which is not supported by current paleontological findings. On a similar subject, the tyrannosaurus-like creature in the same show appeared to be grossly out of scale.’

“But it’s still your favorite movie, right? It’s not like there’s a better, more paleontologically accurate film that could supersede Jurassic Park? Or, better yet, shut up and move over, I want to play Chopstix for the next eight hours.”

Anyone else hearing “Luke, I’m your father, it is useless to resist. Come with me, my son, we will rule. Search your feelings, it is true. So you have a twin sister whom Obi Wan was wise to hide. If you will not turn than perhaps you will give in to your hate. You are mine.”? Long live Moosebutter.